Enhancing Infrastructure Resilience

a)      Enhancing the resilience of transport connectivity, through

  • improving the condition, safety, and resilience of select bridges that are prone to floods; 
  • reducing the risks of landslides to enhance population safety, including scaling up bioengineering solutions;
  • supporting the new Uttarakhand Landslide Mitigation and Management Centre (ULMMC) achieve its vision of becoming a center of excellence for landslide risk management, including through capacity building, preparing an institutional development plan, and promoting the application of technology and innovation; and
  • strengthening the capacity of the PWD in resilient design and construction, developing a PWD Climate Adaptation Policy, which will integrate disaster and climate risk management approaches into existing systems, and developing a Road Asset Management System with a climate module.

b)      Providing disaster shelter, through 

  • conducting a shelter needs and development assessment in the context of climate change; 
  • constructing pilot multipurpose disaster shelters in selected disaster-prone areas along major routes with resilient, inclusive, and energy-efficient designs; and
  • establishing institutions and procedures for shelter management including the use and maintenance of the shelters during non-emergency situations.